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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 18, 2019 15:58:13 GMT
I tried to watch This Is Us at least twice and just thought WTF? after about 10 minutes. I know that I was not fair or it would not be so popular.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 18, 2019 17:40:21 GMT
It takes a while to figure out that it skips around in time a lot, following the same individuals but at various ages (and played by different actors at each age) and the series encompasses 4 generations (so far) of the Pearson family.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2019 18:16:36 GMT
Kerouac, you don't have any kind of device for recording Midsomer Murders? That would be frustrating not wanting to commit to three hours straight late at night, but still wanting to see the show.
Commenting on comments above ~ Endeavour is as wonderful as anything can be. Absolutely cannot watch Call the Midwife. (Discussed somewhere else on the forum. Anyway, yuck) I watched a couple of episodes of This is Us and thought it was an intriguing premise and well acted. I don't remember why I drifted away from it, but now will add it to my viewing list to see if it grabs me better this time.
And going back to my own comment at #423, I am glad I stuck with Homecoming, even though it took its sweet time to get good. Once it had all its pieces in place, the tension built up nicely. The acting is excellent and you come away with renewed respect for Julia Roberts.
Glad to see The Good Place mentioned here again. It is infinitely (get it?) clever without stepping on its own feet, and tons of fun besides.
Speaking of fun, absolutely watch Rosehaven!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 18, 2019 18:42:50 GMT
Oh, of course I could record it all, but that is just an evil trap. When VCRs were first invented, I recorded hundreds of things that I never managed to watch.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 21, 2019 15:12:06 GMT
K2, with a DVR there is no library of tapes to take up space and make you feel guilty for not getting around to watching. You can also start watching while it’s recording and skip through commercials, and quit at bedtime knowing your show will wait for you to watch the rest of it.
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 23, 2019 8:28:03 GMT
We're getting quite a lot of new series starting up here. The latest series of Shetland is off to a gloomy start, as is the new series of Trapped from Iceland (I'm practically having to draw up a family tree of how all these people are related to each other, as this is clearly going to be important to the plot, and I'm getting confused as to who is whose brother or sister). We've also had Crimson Rivers (Les Rivières Pourpres) (why purple becomes crimson in English, I don't know), which I found a bit ho-hum. As is the latest period concoction from Channel 4, Traitors, about a woman working in Whitehall who is recruited to work undercover to ferret out communists for (as she thinks) the CIA (only we've already been shown it's a nutty zealot's private mission); as ever with these things, there are odd anachronisms creeping in (you'd think that some of the effort that goes into getting the right clothes, hairdos and props for the period might actually go on checking the script for the right sort of idioms as well). My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 23, 2019 19:06:29 GMT
Thanks for the tip off...watching Shetland now on BBC iPlayer 😁
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Post by patricklondon on Feb 25, 2019 15:34:49 GMT
And I forgot another BBC offering. The team behind the two series of The Missing have now focussed their new series on their detective Baptiste, still played by Tchéky Karyo, and they have presumably got some production money from wider international sources, since the action is now set in Amsterdam, where although he has now retired from ill-health, our hero is recruited by a local police chief (a woman with whom he clearly Has A History) to help out an Englishman who is looking for a niece seemingly lost in the murky underworld of drugs and sex trafficking (Belgium also gets a look-in as the Englishman lives in Antwerp and one of the secondary actors is Belgian). But, as our hero keeps world-wearily reminding us, nothing is quite as it seems. Several nailbiting twists and turns in just the first two episodes. Tom Hollander gets to demonstrate his scenery-chewing range, for a change. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 25, 2019 15:52:35 GMT
Yes...watching Baptiste...we sit with our mouths open constantly on edge. The last series will be difficult to beat methinks.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 3, 2019 21:49:27 GMT
So, Stranger Things 2. Enjoyed the original, but so long ago that a recap would’ve been nice. The 2nd season is being called a “sequel”, not just a continuation where Season 1 left off. www.polygon.com/2017/10/23/16519870/stranger-things-season-2-reviewA year or so has passed. The bad stuff is still happening at the evil lab on the outskirts of 1970’s Hawkins, Indiana, and now it’s beginning to leak out into the community. Middle-schooler Will is reunited with his friends after his freak disappearance for essentially all of last season, and these 4 kids, plus a new (girl) friend, some siblings and older friends, are taking on the bad guys, using walkie-talkies and bicycles, and nerdy ingenuity. Anxious Mom Winona Ryder and in-it-up-to-his-elbows good guy sheriff Jim Hopper are getting to the bottom of things, literally. Only 2 more episodes to go. There will be a Stranger Things 3, I hear....
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 3, 2019 21:52:25 GMT
Watching Midsomer Murders again. I think one of the things that I appreciate the most is that there are never any jump scares or sudden gunfire.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 3, 2019 21:53:22 GMT
😉
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 3, 2019 21:58:43 GMT
Certain cultures would be bored stiff, especially since you have to wait 90 minutes for resolution of the case.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 5, 2019 18:00:43 GMT
Copied from Small Screen thread... From Casimira last year April regarding Babylon Berlin "The screen adaptation of this series is likely one of the best, most thrilling, spellbinding series I have seen in a long time. Available on Netflix. Positively riveting and intense." You were so right! It's out in France on DVD French subtitled and is spectacular, fantastic, fabulous, about 1000 times better than the turgid books it's based on.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 5, 2019 18:14:41 GMT
The Great British Sewing Bee is on this evening...altho we want to watch Fleabag first on BBC iPlayer.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 5, 2019 18:39:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 5, 2019 22:24:42 GMT
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a genius and Fleabag is brilliant. the only thing wrong with it is that it seems to end after the first season.
People who like Fleabag will probably also enjoy Catastrophe.
I just watch the third episode of Doc Martin. I never even thought about it or glanced at it before, but by episode three I was finally laughing. "I'll make sandwiches. Do you eat tongue?"
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 6, 2019 11:05:22 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 6, 2019 15:41:45 GMT
A new series of Fleabag has just started here. As has a second series of Derry Girls, which looks promising. Thank you!!!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 7, 2019 19:09:36 GMT
I was disappointed that both Endeavour and Death in Paradise have finished....I'm on episode 3 of Shetland and Baptiste but I'm starting to panic....
Got this to look forward to on Amazon Prime on May 31st
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2019 20:34:38 GMT
I was disappointed that both Endeavour and Death in Paradise have finished Endeavour ended?! *hysterical squeaky voice* It ended??!! Hell's bells! I can't believe they only gave us four episodes, when last season had six. Humph. On the bright side, I have not seen the final of this season yet, so I still have something to live for. I love Endeavor so much I can hardly stand it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 7, 2019 21:31:20 GMT
In the old days, American series had something like 28 or 26 episodes per season. Then they went down a bit. I think a lot of British series have only about 10 or 12 episodes per season, sometimes less (Sherlock...). French series tend to have just 8 episodes. On top of that, the series do not come back at the same time every year. Sometimes you have to wait 18 months, sometimes longer. The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 7, 2019 23:23:23 GMT
I’m not sure what an “American series” IS anymore! The weekly shows (sitcoms) of my youth were a whole ‘nother critter from the HBO, Showtime and Netflix series we have nowadays. The production values (and associated costs) are so much higher with the new series - they compare very favorably to movies. So I guess it makes sense that they wouldn’t produce as many episodes as the old-style weekly shows.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2019 23:26:26 GMT
Yes, what Kimby said!
Also, it's still the regular network half-hour shows (generally sit-coms) which still have all those episodes per season.
And what Kerouac said about how long it takes series to return for the next season -- ditto & grrr.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 8, 2019 8:24:20 GMT
Most British series are between 6 & 8 episodes long. Very occasionally longer (Call the Midwife, Casualty and Holby City for example). I always thought that less...say 3 episodes...was a mini-series 😁
Of course there are often specials one or two episodes of a well loved series shown on a special occasion...Christmas, Easter...August bank holidays etc there's usually something on TV in amongst the white noise of sport and appalling, cheap entertainment shows.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 8, 2019 19:01:55 GMT
There is only one series in France ("Agatha Christie's Little Murders" which is made with authorisation from the writer's estate) which did a Christmas special last year. It seemed totally inappropriate to me, not only because it was so contrary to French culture about such things but also because even though the show is light hearted, it is still always a murder mystery.
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 10, 2019 6:48:15 GMT
Christmas specials can be overdone, especially in the kind of family drama that get overloaded with glutinous sentiment. But I remember one murder mystery Christmas special (a Jonathan Creek) where not only did they have the butler do it, but also it was "all done with mirrors". What a tease My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by whatagain on Mar 10, 2019 9:45:24 GMT
I just reread agatha book about Poirot ´s Xmas.
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Post by casimira on Mar 12, 2019 16:00:33 GMT
Kerouac, you don't have any kind of device for recording Midsomer Murders? That would be frustrating not wanting to commit to three hours straight late at night, but still wanting to see the show. Commenting on comments above ~ Endeavour is as wonderful as anything can be. Absolutely cannot watch Call the Midwife. (Discussed somewhere else on the forum. Anyway, yuck) I watched a couple of episodes of This is Us and thought it was an intriguing premise and well acted. I don't remember why I drifted away from it, but now will add it to my viewing list to see if it grabs me better this time. And going back to my own comment at #423, I am glad I stuck with Homecoming, even though it took its sweet time to get good. Once it had all its pieces in place, the tension built up nicely. The acting is excellent and you come away with renewed respect for Julia Roberts.Glad to see The Good Place mentioned here again. It is infinitely (get it?) clever without stepping on its own feet, and tons of fun besides. Speaking of fun, absolutely watch Rosehaven! I am so glad you stuck with Homecoming Bixa. Admittedly it did initially drag a bit but it was well worth perservering through. Julia Roberts is exceptional.
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Post by rikita on Mar 12, 2019 23:51:03 GMT
recently finished "a series of unfortunate events", and now started "nightflyers". not sure what to think of the latter.
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